Bradleys do Idaho

We had a fun adventure this past week. We packed up the kids in the car and drove them to Idaho  to spend the weekend with our friends, The Frosts. The Frosts are fabulous people who Christian has known for about 15 years. They are wonderful caring people and were so happy to host us and let us spend some time in their fabulous cabin. 

We left Salt Lake Thursday afternoon and rocked out to some Broadway and  rock on our way up. James of course covered his ears, he believes the only good music comes from his toy car. We finally made it to the Frost's home where Christian and John were able to go spend some quality time watching other men blow things up and Marta and I were able to sit around and talk while Marta did some crafting. 

The next morning we loaded up the Frost's trailer and we were on our way to the cabin! 

Their cabin is in McCall, Idaho about two hours outside of Boise. It was beautiful and sat right on the golf course.   Matty was right at home and showed off his new trick, climbing on the fire place hearth. 

Once we unloaded the trailer and the men set up the new pool table we piled everyone back in the cars and went to get dinner. We went to a fabulous place called the Pancake house. With six kids at the table it was a very loud dinner and I chuckled a bit when they put us in a corner far away from the rest of the customers. Christian and I shared two different dinners, I really liked the hot pasta salad they had. It was fabulous and with honey mustard dressing was even better. John then introduced us to the biggest sweet roll I have ever seen...

We ordered three and ate two...It still looks like a giant cow pie.

My kids were just happy to be out of the car and were more than happy to pose for pictures after we fed them the giant sweet roll.

Saturday we had a lazy morning then drove up to Burdorf Hot Springs. The kids had a great time playing in the warm water and the adults thought it was pretty fun too.

So funny little side story. I had forgotten Matty's swim diaper back at the cabin and bought one from the nice man at the hot spring. When I put it on Matty I thought it looked more diaperish than anything else but I had watched him pull it out of a swim diaper pack so I just figured it was a different brand...yeah not so much. It was a plain old regular diaper that weighed about as much as Matty does by the end of our stay. The diaper had exploded and Christian and I spent a fair amount of time wiping Matty, ourselves, and the table clean of the lovely gooey crystal substance that is found in diapers.

We drove back to McCall and walked around the downtown area. It was so nice and pleasant  We tried to stop for ice cream at Ice Cream Alley (which by the way is down an alley) but they had closed for the season. We did get to enjoy ice cream from another shop though...we cleaned them out of mint chocolate chip.  But James seemed to prefer the chocolate.













Then we took a walk by the lake and snapped a few pictures of course.

During our walk we found the 1930 McCall Jail. I lovely two bedroom abode where your family had to bring you your meals.  The kids thought it was a fun place to pretend they were in jail.

We finished out our night roasting by the fire side. The kids just wanted to throw sticks on the fire and played most the night out there. They seemed to like to pick up long sticks with one end on fire...yeah I don't get the fascination there.

The men roasted our sausages to perfection...they later did the same thing with marshmallows.

Once the kids were in bed our evenings were filled with games, cookies, and sparkling cider. Yes children, your parents have lots of fun once you are in bed. It was also filled with great conversation. We are very lucky to have such great friends who we can sit and laugh with.

Sunday morning we hurried and cleaned up and helped Laine get in her service hours. She told me as we backed the car out to leave Thursday she had to turn three of them in on Monday. A few of the kids were sad to leave their new friends. Laine thought Oliver was great because, "he got my jokes." and they were on board with Oliver's plan that we buy the house next store. We did finally hit the road though.  Eight hours made for a long trip back but the kids were good. They also liked seeing the Idaho state capitol, and the Boise State stadium. They also enjoyed listening to the children's version of The Odyssey and were sad when we told them that there wasn't time to do another book so they would have to listen to Les Mis instead.  We made it home though, all limbs attached and very few tears shed.

Thanks for the awesome weekend Frost Family! Let's do it again soon!